The article provides an insight into the writings of Slovak Catholic literati published between the end of World War II and the establishment of the communist totalitarian rule in Czechoslovakia in 1948. The writing of Catholic literary critics concentrated in two religious-cultural periodicals Nová práca and Verbum. For both magazines, the article draws on their respective historical-contextual backgrounds and points to differences in their visions of the cultural work. Subsequently, it characterises the way the periodicals profiled their literary criticism in reviews, glosses, commentaries and articles dealing with more general cultural topics and provides profiles of the three most significant literary critics – Aloš Stankovský (1925 – 2002), Vojtech Mihálik (1926 – 2001) and Jozef Kútnik Šmálov (1912 – 1982). The article is a contribution towards a better knowledge of the Catholic literary criticism that formed alongside the poetry of Slovak Catholic Modernists. The work of Catholic literary criticism has not been studied as much as the poetry of Catholic Modernists and this article aims at rectifying this deficiency somewhat.
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The author of the article tries to at least partially fill serious gaps in the poetry of Vojtech Mihálik (1926 – 2001) and contribute to supplementing and correcting his authorial profile. Martin Navrátil introduces an unknown manuscript collection of sonnets called “Nie sme dnešní” (We Were Not Born Yesterday), which represents a collection of poetry portraits of prominent cultural figures, who worked in the territory of present-day Slovakia or became a part of its history from the Early Middle Ages (e.g. Samo, Pribina, Sts. Cyril and Methodius, Svätopluk) to the 20th century (e.g. Svetozár Hurban Vajanský, Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Andrej Hlinka). He also points out the usage or rather the creation of national myths that are closely connected with literary production. They subsequently remain in national awareness as undeniable truths.
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